Niels is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Niels in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Niels in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Niels by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Niels ranks at #5,131. That means there are 5,130 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Niels.
The first name Niels is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 85 Americans in total bear this name. And these 85 men are located in only three states: California, New York and Utah (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Niels and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Niels in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 263,414 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Niels present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Niels is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.
If your name is Niels and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Niels, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Lion
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Niels
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Niels sounds like this:
